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David O’Brien

Vice President
· London

Areas of specialism

  • Quant Research Leads
  • Quant Portfolio Managers
  • Heads of Business
  • C-Suite
In The Omerta Group since 2022 · 4 years

About David

David is currently a Vice President sitting in the Global Systematic Markets business based in London. He focusses on placing Quant Research Leads, Quant Portfolio Managers, Heads of Business and C-Suite. From a strategy perspective, this encompasses HFT to multi-day across equities, futures and options, including Deep Learning driven alpha. He works on mandates globally, with primary locations being Chicago, New York, London, Paris, Dubai, Hong Kong & Singapore.  


Prior to the Omerta Group he worked at a boutique search firm focussing on Front Office hiring in both sell and buy side institutions. David read Industrial/Organisational and Business Psychology at UCL and Experimental Psychology at the University of Bristol.

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Representative work

Representative assignments

Head of Systematic Equities

Hedge fund

Boston

Futures Quant Portfolio Manager

Hedge fund

Paris

Lead China A Shares Quant Portfolio Manager

Hedge fund

Hong Kong

Seeded Index Arbitrage Trading Firm

Hedge fund

New York and Miami

Background

Credentials

Education and experience

University of Bristol
BSc Experimental Psychology, 2017
University College London
MSc Industrial/Organisational and Business Psychology, 2018
Carwood Smith
Search Consultant, 2018 – 2022

Based in

TOG London

10 Noble Street
London, EC2V 7JX

Consultants here19

CoverageEMEA

Same office

Colleagues

Where David works

Practices

Portfolio managers, analysts, strategists and traders, and the COO, CRO and business management mandates that keep a platform running.

Quantitative researchers, traders, portfolio managers and developers across high and mid-frequency strategies.

Sales, trading, structuring, capital raising and research across every major asset class.

Leadership, portfolio managers, research, distribution and risk across traditional managers and alternatives.

Managing directors and product heads across M&A, ECM, DCM, leveraged finance and restructuring.

Managing directors and product heads across M&A, ECM, DCM, leveraged finance and restructuring.

Chair, non-executive director, CEO and executive committee searches across financial services.

COO, CFO, CRO, general counsel, audit and compliance leadership at partner and managing director level.

CAIO, CTO, CIO, CDO and head-of-engineering mandates, and the executives building the AI and data infrastructure behind them.

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